Ben Sales Archives - Page 7 of 16 - St. Louis Jewish Light

This lawyer yelled at restaurant employees for speaking Spanish. Now he’s in trouble.

Ben Sales
Published May 17, 2018

Israel defends Gaza crackdown as self-defense

Ben Sales
Published May 15, 2018

Why this rabbinical student is celebrating Shavuot at an IHOP

Ben Sales
Published May 15, 2018

Neighbors of the new US embassy in Jerusalem are worried — about traffic and rising rents

Ben Sales
Published May 14, 2018

Amid renewed talk of war, Israelis are keeping calm and carrying on

Ben Sales
Published May 9, 2018

Netanyahu praises US withdrawal from Iran deal as ‘correct, intelligent and courageous’

Ben Sales
Published May 8, 2018

How Israel’s tech scene is helping wounded combat veterans

Ben Sales
Published May 7, 2018

Meet the first two Israeli riders — both named Guy — to compete in Grand Tour of cycling

Ben Sales
Published May 4, 2018

Israel told its citizens not to light bonfires on Lag b’Omer. They did it anyway.

Ben Sales
Published May 3, 2018

The Italian cycling champion who saved Jews during the Holocaust is given honorary Israeli citizenship

Ben Sales
Published May 2, 2018

Some rabbis say it isn’t kosher to borrow from Quicken Loans — because it’s run by Jews

Ben Sales
Published May 1, 2018

3 Jewish groups are accusing ZOA of defamation. The Zionist group is bringing its own charges.

Ben Sales
Published April 30, 2018

Israeli consulate in New York locked down for two hours following threat

Ben Sales
Published April 27, 2018

What a new memorial for black lynching victims learned from Holocaust commemoration

Ben Sales
Published April 26, 2018

Why Jewish organizations are mostly playing it safe on issues like gun control and refugees

Ben Sales
Published April 25, 2018

Does Judaism allow torture? These college students tried to find out.

Ben Sales
Published April 16, 2018

How Washington, D.C. got a bunch of new kosher restaurants

Ben Sales
Published April 13, 2018

My ancestors died in the Holocaust. I just found out about it.

Ben Sales
Published April 12, 2018

Columbia students hold anti-Israel demonstration opposite Holocaust commemoration booth

Ben Sales
Published April 12, 2018

After its latest strike on Syria, Israel’s cozy relationship with Russia could be over

Ben Sales
Published April 10, 2018

Israel at 70: How 1948 changed American Jews

Ben Sales
Published April 2, 2018

Conservative Judaism’s leadership turns over. Will intermarriage policy be next?

Ben Sales
Published March 30, 2018

Kosher supermarkets hate cleaning for Passover as much as you do

Ben Sales
Published March 27, 2018

Mega-donors are taking over Jewish philanthropy, new study says

Ben Sales
Published March 26, 2018

Thousands in London protest anti-Semitism in UK Labour Party

Ben Sales
Published March 26, 2018

Stephen Colbert worked out with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He barely kept up.

Ben Sales
Published March 22, 2018

The Rothschilds and the weather: What you need to know about the anti-Semitic conspiracies about the banking family

Ben Sales
Published March 21, 2018

These North American baby boomers teach Israeli kids English

Ben Sales
Published March 20, 2018

Cynthia Nixon gave a Shabbat sermon in 2011 — and praised Andrew Cuomo

Ben Sales
Published March 19, 2018

Malcolm Hoenlein says his role with Israeli gas giant is ‘completely transparent’

Ben Sales
Published March 16, 2018

Israel is the star at a national security conference in Mississippi

Ben Sales
Published March 14, 2018

Jews agree that Farrakhan is anti-Semitic. After that, it gets complicated.

Ben Sales
Published March 11, 2018

Most US Jews oppose Trump. He was cheered at AIPAC. Awkward?

Ben Sales
Published March 6, 2018

In Israel, Netanyahu is embattled. At AIPAC, he was at home.

Ben Sales
Published March 6, 2018

U.S. will withdraw from Iran deal unless it is fixed soon, Pence tells AIPAC

Ben Sales
Published March 5, 2018

Why more Orthodox Jews are going to AIPAC

Ben Sales
Published March 5, 2018

An ‘Annie Hall’ remake, starring two senior citizens

Ben Sales
Published March 2, 2018

Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. Is he still relevant?

Ben Sales
Published March 2, 2018

Meet the Jewish teenager from Maryland running to be governor of Kansas

Ben Sales
Published February 27, 2018

Prominent NY Jewish day school will support student walkouts to protest gun violence

Ben Sales
Published February 27, 2018

Parkland students begin to heal at Jewish conference in New York

Ben Sales
Published February 26, 2018

In Democratic race for Illinois governor, the two top candidates are Jewish. The similarity ends there.

Ben Sales
Published February 23, 2018

The accusations against Benjamin Netanyahu: What you need to know

Ben Sales
Published February 22, 2018

Can Jewish charities do good and make money? Impact investors say yes.

Ben Sales
Published February 21, 2018

Aunt of Jewish Florida school shooting victim pleads for an end to ‘the sickness that has gripped our country’

Ben Sales
Published February 16, 2018

The Jewish sheriff leading the response to the Florida school shooting quotes the Talmud

Ben Sales
Published February 15, 2018

Virgin Atlantic Airlines called a couscous dish Palestinian, and people got very upset

Ben Sales
Published February 14, 2018

Bay Area Jews are less religious and care less about Israel than other American Jewish communities

Ben Sales
Published February 13, 2018

Israel, Iran and Syria just traded blows. Does this mean war?

Ben Sales
Published February 12, 2018

The youngest Schindler’s list survivor is still telling her story

Ben Sales
Published February 6, 2018

There’s a podcast about Jewish summer camp

Ben Sales
Published February 5, 2018

At this Jewish camp, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor teaches kids Yiddish

Ben Sales
Published February 2, 2018

Orthodox Union will not penalize synagogues that already have women clergy

Ben Sales
Published January 31, 2018

In the #MeToo era, these synagogues are banning Shlomo Carlebach songs

Ben Sales
Published January 30, 2018

Super Bowl tourists will see a Holocaust photo exhibit at the Minneapolis airport

Ben Sales
Published January 26, 2018

Store that sells ‘P is for Palestine’ children’s book faces more heat — from the left

Ben Sales
Published January 26, 2018

No surprise: Experts disagree over what’s to blame for a partisan gap on Israel

Ben Sales
Published January 25, 2018

Meet the 99-year-old Jewish man who has become Philadelphia’s Super Bowl mascot

Ben Sales
Published January 24, 2018

A Jewish journalist is confronting Trump’s immigration advisers with their own immigrant histories

Ben Sales
Published January 22, 2018

Aly Raisman calls out her abuser Larry Nasser in a powerful speech: ‘The tables have turned’

Ben Sales
Published January 19, 2018

The Israeli who founded Moishe’s Moving wants to make New Jersey an artists’ mecca

Ben Sales
Published January 18, 2018

A pluralistic project for millennials takes a page from the Chabad playbook

Ben Sales
Published January 18, 2018

Neo-Nazi site says Delta is official airline of the ‘white race’

Ben Sales
Published January 12, 2018

When Jews came from ‘shithole’ countries

Ben Sales
Published January 12, 2018

This art studio in Berkeley is combining painting and prayer

Ben Sales
Published January 11, 2018

Delta employees detail a pattern of anti-Semitic abuse at airline

Ben Sales
Published January 9, 2018

Oprah Winfrey probably would be a pro-Israel president

Ben Sales
Published January 8, 2018

Why Jews care that Roy Moore’s ‘Jewish lawyer’ is actually Christian

Ben Sales
Published January 5, 2018

Ivanka Trump wants to be president

Ben Sales
Published January 3, 2018

Should Israeli soldiers shoot to kill Palestinian terrorists? Michael Oren says yes.

Ben Sales
Published January 3, 2018

This rabbinical student explains Judaism to Muslims in Arabic

Ben Sales
Published December 29, 2017

Two synagogues vandalized in Iran

Ben Sales
Published December 27, 2017

Rachael Ray cooked Israeli food — and stirred up some controversy

Ben Sales
Published December 27, 2017

Everyone on Google was searching for Gal Gadot this year

Ben Sales
Published December 26, 2017

Four ways Israel and American Jews grew apart in 2017

Ben Sales
Published December 20, 2017

Conservative youth group cuts ties with former director accused of inappropriate sexual behavior

Ben Sales
Published December 18, 2017

Ari Shavit accused again of sexual misconduct, prompting comeback cancellation

Ben Sales
Published December 15, 2017

Trump is letting in fewer refugees, so Jewish aid group is forced to cut back

Ben Sales
Published December 15, 2017

A liberal group celebrated Hanukkah in Trump Tower — to protest Trump

Ben Sales
Published December 15, 2017

Why these experts say Trump’s Jerusalem recognition will help the peace process

Ben Sales
Published December 14, 2017

Liberal Orthodox synagogue will not announce LGBT weddings following complaint

Ben Sales
Published December 13, 2017

Israelis are flocking to this Silicon Valley community center

Ben Sales
Published December 12, 2017

Al Franken’s resignation pains his Jewish fans in Minnesota

Ben Sales
Published December 8, 2017

Natan Sharansky recalls when 250,000 Jews rallied for Soviet Jewry 30 years ago

Ben Sales
Published December 6, 2017

Netanyahu’s new rival thinks he has a winning strategy: Don’t say much

Ben Sales
Published December 4, 2017

How a kids’ book on Palestine ensnared this Manhattan store in a political crossfire

Ben Sales
Published December 4, 2017

The NY Times Nazi lost his job. Now he’s getting money from a site called GoyFundMe.

Ben Sales
Published November 30, 2017

Reform rabbis are finding it tougher to love Israel

Ben Sales
Published November 28, 2017

How Israeli women techies are opening doors for each other in Silicon Valley

Ben Sales
Published November 20, 2017

I tried to speak to Bernie Bernstein — any Bernie Bernstein — and this is what happened

Ben Sales
Published November 16, 2017

After surviving Hurricane Harvey, this woman distributes mezuzahs to those who need them

Ben Sales
Published November 14, 2017

These bar-mitzvah kids already are Jewish philanthropists

Ben Sales
Published November 13, 2017

Stephen Bannon says ‘I’m proud to be a Christian Zionist’

Ben Sales
Published November 13, 2017

Israeli band doesn’t let disability get in the way of making music

Ben Sales
Published November 3, 2017

Israelis will power the future of American Jewry, IAC chair says

Ben Sales
Published October 31, 2017

Jews for Jesus commissioned a study on Jewish millennials. Here’s what it found.

Ben Sales
Published October 31, 2017

A Hebrew charter school takes a not-so-Jewish trip to Israel

Ben Sales
Published October 27, 2017

Conservative movement reaffirms intermarriage ban and rabbis ask why

Ben Sales
Published October 20, 2017

Conservative movement keeps intermarriage ban

Ben Sales
Published October 18, 2017

Jewish women share their tales of harassment, and a rabbi atones for his fellow men

Ben Sales
Published October 16, 2017